Phylogeographic and population insights
of the Asian common toad (Bufo
gargarizans) in Korea and China:
population isolation and expansions as
response to the ice ages
Amae¨l Borze´e1,7, Joana L. Santos2, Santiago Sa´nchez-RamI´rez3,4, Yoonhyuk Bae5, Kyongman Heo6, Yikweon Jang7and Michael Joseph Jowers2,8
1Laboratory of Behavioural Ecology and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National
University, Seoul, South Korea
2CIBIO/InBIO (Centro de Investigac¸a˜o em Biodiversidade e Recursos Gene´ticos), Universidade
do Porto, Campus Agrario De Vaira˜o, Portugal
3Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 4Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
5Academy of Life Science and Biotechnology, Hallym University, Chuncheon, South Korea 6College of Natural Science, Sangmyung University, Seoul, South Korea
7Department of Life Sciences, Division of EcoScience, Ewha Womans University, Seoul,
South Korea
8National Institute of Ecology, Geumgang-ro, Maseo-myeon, Seocheon-gun, South
Chungcheong Province, South Korea
ABSTRACT
The effects of ice ages on speciation have been well documented for many European and North American taxa. In contrast, very few studies have addressed the
consequences of such environmental and topographical changes in North East Asian species. More precisely, the Korean Peninsula offers a unique model to assess patterns and processes of speciation as it hosts the northern- and eastern-most distribution limit of some widespread Asian taxa. Despite this, studies addressing phylogeographic patterns and population genetics in the peninsula and surrounding countries are few and studies for most families are lacking. Here we inferred the phylogenetic relationships of the common toad (Bufo gargarizans) from South Korea and their North East Asian counterpart populations, based on mitochondrial data. Korean B. gargarizans GenBank BLASTs matched few individuals from nearby China, but the presence of a Korean clade suggests isolation on the Korean Peninsula, previous to the last glacial maximum, linked to sea level resurgence. Molecular clock calibrations within this group were used to date the divergence between clades and their relationship to paleo-climatic events in the area. Lack of genetic structure among South Korean populations and strong homogeneity between the Korean and some Chinese localities suggest weak isolation and recent expansion. Geographical projection of continuous coalescent maximum-clade-credibility trees shows an original Chinese expansion towards the Korean Peninsula through the Yellow Sea circa two million years ago with colonisation events dating circa 800 thousand years ago (K. y. a.). Following this colonisation, the data point to outgoing Korean Peninsula dispersal events throughout different periods, towards Submitted1 March 2017
Accepted25 October 2017 Published28 November 2017 Corresponding author Michael Joseph Jowers, michaeljowers@hotmail.com Academic editor
Stephen Wratten
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the North through land, and West through land bridge formations over the Yellow Sea during sea level falls. In accordance, demographic analyses revealed a population expansion in the Koran Peninsula circa 300 K. y. a., likely attributed to glacial cycle fluctuations.
Subjects Biodiversity, Biogeography, Zoology
Keywords Phylogeography, Bufo gargarizans, Korea, Asia, China, Common Asian toad, Ice ages
INTRODUCTION
Populations contract and expand throughout periods of glacial maxima and minima, respectively. Such harsh environmental fluctuations result in specific speciation events, and have been well documented across Europe (Hewitt, 2000;Veith, Kosuch & Vences, 2003;Avise, 2007) and North America (Knowles, 2001). Specifically, the last glacial maximum (LGM) in Europe resulted in speciation patterns following the isolation of populations on southern peninsulas, which were then used as refugia from colder and dryer conditions. Such an example is the Hyla arborea complex (Sto¨ck et al., 2008,2012). In contrast, evolutionary responses to climate fluctuations have been poorly studied in North East Asia, defined as the region north of the Yangtze River and limited
around 100West, due to the paleo-geographic coherence and the same monsoon climate regime of the region. However, studies suggests that rather than isolating populations throughout the LGM, they seem to have aided connectivity at different times by the drainage of the Yellow Sea resulting in land-bridge formations between the mainland, the current Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago (Fairbanks, 1989;Park, Khim & Zhao, 1994;Kim & Kennett, 1998;Ijiri et al., 2005). The inter-glacial periods resulted in island discontinuity, due to sea level resurgence. Several hypothesis have been tested (seeKim et al., 2013), in relation to the potential for several refugia, the connectivity of the Korean Peninsula and the Asian mainland through land bridges, and the presence of ice sheets during the glacial oscillations. It seems certain that several refugia were present in North East Asia (Aizawa, Kim & Yoshimaru, 2012) during glacial or interglacial periods.
The Bufo genus (sensu stricto) is composed of two groups, the European–African– Western Asian group: ‘Bufo bufo group’ and the Eastern Asian ‘Bufo gargarizans group’ (Garcia-Porta et al., 2012). The B. gargarizans group ranges from Japan to south-western China and northern Vietnam, through south eastern Russia (Garcia-Porta et al., 2012), and includes the species B. gargarizans, Bufo bankorensis and Bufo japonicus. The species with the largest range, the Asian toad (B. gargarizans), ranges from Japan to China (Kuzmin et al., 2004) as a single species despite multiple contested lineages (Liu et al., 2000;Zhan & Fu, 2011), and east-west genetic dispersion patterns (Fu et al., 2005). The low genetic divergence throughout its range is likely a result of a lack of an isolated insular refugium (Zhan & Fu, 2011;Yan et al., 2013). Another factor to the genetic homogeneity of the species is the absence of mountain chains high enough to act as barriers within the species range. Instead, the Himalayan range, bordering the southern
edge of the Tibetan plateau, sets a southern edge to the distribution of the species (Yan et al., 2013). Other studies however, focusing on North East Asian mainland B. gargarizans populations, show a contrasting picture with some species showing genetic isolation, such as isolated peninsular or insular populations. This is demonstrated through the
dichotomy between B. gargarizans and B. bankorensis, with the first species on the mainland and the latter in Taiwan (Chen et al., 2013;Yu, Lin & Weng, 2014). Coastal North East Asia was potentially composed of several refugia during either glacial or interglacial periods, thus reducing gene flow connectivity, even for good dispersers such as raccoon dogs (Kim et al., 2013). The Korean Peninsula was not covered by glaciers, but it was colder and drier during glacial periods (Kong, 2000;Yi & Kim, 2010). It was also a refugium during the late Pleistocene, as exemplified for Pelophylax nigromaculatus (Zhang et al., 2008) and Onychodactylus fischeri (Yoshikawa et al., 2008). Moreover, the Korean Peninsula is divided by geographical landscape barriers, leading to the emergence of several clades within Pelophylax chosenicus (Min et al., 2008), Hynobius spp. (Baek et al., 2011;Min et al., 2016) and Dryophytes japonicus (Dufresnes et al., 2016), a consequence of allopatric divergence.
Connectivity between the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the Eurasian continent has been regularly ensured by the filling of the Yellow Sea, even during glaciation periods when the northern latitude of the peninsula was not within amphibian reach, and thus through continued land connectivity (Haq, Hardenbol & Vail, 1987;Millien-Parra & Jaeger, 1999; see Fig. 1,Kim et al., 2013). However, genetic diversification between China, Korea and Japan occurred (Ota, 1998;Ota et al., 2002;Zhang et al., 2008;Gong et al., 2008;
Qi et al., 2014;Matsui, 2014), exemplified by repeated patterns of mtDNA introgression and range shifts in water frogs (Pelophylax spp.;Komaki et al., 2015).
Bufo gargarizans populations have shown a slow decline in Korea throughout the last decades, mostly due to habitat partitioning (Kuzmin et al., 2004). The genetic structure of populations in North East Asia is fairly well known for Chinese (Liu et al., 2000;Fu et al., 2005;Zhan & Fu, 2011), Taiwanese (Chen et al., 2013;Yu, Lin & Weng, 2014) and Japanese (Hase, Shimada & Nikoh, 2012) populations, but very little is known so far for Korean populations (Fu et al., 2005). Herewith, we hypothesise the absence of a total genetic segregation within B. gargarizans populations from South Korea due to the potential for recolonisation and population connectivity during interglacials.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Field work
Bufo gargarizans is usually found between 20 and 800 m a.s.l., in coniferous, mixed and deciduous forests, as well as grasslands, in humid but not saturated habitat (Kuzmin et al., 2004). Due to permit restriction from the Ministry of Environment (permit numbers: Yesan-2016-10; Boeun-2016-01; Gangwha-2016-01; Jeonju-2016-01; Hampyeong-2016-37; Daegu-2016-01; Geumsan-2016-02; Nonsan-2016-01; Changwon-2016-02) we limited our sampling to 47 individuals from 10 sites (Fig. 1), with all samples originating from road kills. For samples to be assigned to a same localities, they had to be collected within 10 km of each other, representative of an average maximum dispersion distance for
amphibians (see review by Smith & Green, 2005). To define the GPS coordinates of the localities for pooled samples (Table 1), we calculated the centre of gravity created by the polygon of sites considered, weighted by the number of samples.
Molecular work
DNA was extracted through a Qiagen DNeasy blood and tissue kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) following the instructions of the manufacturer. The targeted genes were the mitochondrial ND2 (this fragment comprised 74 bp ND1, complete tRNA-Ile, tRNA-Gln, tRNA-Met, 510 bp ND2; referred throughout as ND2 fragment for simplicity) and CR fragments. The primers used were: ND2: L-int 5′-CGA GCATCC TAC CCA CGATTT CG-3′ (Fu et al., 2005) and H4980 5′-ATT TTT CGTAGT TGG GTT TGR TT-3′ (Macey et al., 1998) and CR BGarF TTGGACGATAGCAAGGAACACTC-3′ and CR BGarR
5′-CCTGACTTCTCTGAGGCCGCTTT-3′ (this study). Templates were sequenced on both strands and the complementary reads were used to resolve rare, ambiguous base-calls in Sequencher v.4.9. In order to assess the positioning of the Korean individuals within the B. gargarizans species complex, several alignments and analyses were prepared depending on localities and GPS coordinates in Genbank records. A larger alignment for the RAxML and MrBayes analyses consisted of all the B. gargarizans specimens available in Genbank and other closely related taxa that fell within the B. gargarizans species complex, not associated to additional data such as exact geographical localities (n = 181, length = 1,222 base pair = bp,Fig. 2). A slightly smaller alignment that included individuals assigned to B. gargarizans senso strito that either had GPS or accurate Chinese localities (n = 148,
Figure 1 Map of the sampling sites where Bufo gargarizans roadkills were collected and regions of origin for the samples extracted from GeneBank. On the inset map, each colour matches with a different haplotype of the combined analysis, encoded similarly to the haplotype networks (Fig. 5C). The size of the pie charts is proportional to the sample size at the site (1 < n < 13). Site 1 is on Gangwha Island; and the black dashed line represents the Baekdu Mountains Range. This figure was generated with Google Earth Pro (Mountain View, CA, USA) and ArcMap 10.5 (Environmental Systems Resource Institute, Redlands, CA, USA). Service Layer Credits & Sources: Esri, USGS and GeoServices Map Esri Korea). Map data©2015 Google. Full-size DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4044/fig-1
Table 1 Sampling localities for all 47 individuals included in this study. Site ID on
Fig. 1
Country Latitude (N) Longitude (W) Sample size
Sample ID GenBank Accession Number Origin
(or localities) CR ND2
1 Korea 37.721666 126.401131 2 B. gargarizans 1 KY295993 KY295992 This study 1 Korea 37.721666 126.401131 2 B. gargarizans 2 KY295994 KY295991 This study 2 Korea 35.779648 127.143229 5 B. gargarizans 3 KY295995 KY295990 This study 2 Korea 35.779648 127.143229 5 B. gargarizans 4 KY295996 KY295989 This study 2 Korea 35.779648 127.143229 5 B. gargarizans 5 KY295997 KY295988 This study 2 Korea 35.779648 127.143229 5 B. gargarizans 6 KY295998 KY295987 This study 2 Korea 35.779648 127.143229 5 B. gargarizans 7 KY295999 KY295986 This study 3 Korea 36.137497 127.381469 5 B. gargarizans 8 KY296000 KY295985 This study 3 Korea 36.137497 127.381469 5 B. gargarizans 9 KY296001 KY295984 This study 3 Korea 36.137497 127.381469 5 B. gargarizans 10 KY296002 KY295983 This study 3 Korea 36.137497 127.381469 5 B. gargarizans 11 KY296003 KY295982 This study 3 Korea 36.137497 127.381469 5 B. gargarizans 12 KY296004 KY295981 This study 4 Korea 36.310532 127.185360 1 B. gargarizans 13 KY296005 KY295980 This study 5 Korea 35.825662 128.704850 3 B. gargarizans 14 KY296006 KY295979 This study 5 Korea 35.825662 128.704850 3 B. gargarizans 15 KY296007 KY295978 This study 5 Korea 35.825662 128.704850 3 B. gargarizans 16 KY296008 KY295977 This study 6 Korea 35.291573 128.672657 5 B. gargarizans 17 KY296009 KY295971 This study 6 Korea 35.291573 128.672657 5 B. gargarizans 18 KY296010 KY295976 This study 6 Korea 35.291573 128.672657 5 B. gargarizans 19 KY296011 KY295975 This study 6 Korea 35.291573 128.672657 5 B. gargarizans 20 KY296012 KY295974 This study 6 Korea 35.291573 128.672657 5 B. gargarizans 21 KY296013 KY295973 This study 7 Korea 36.485968 127.737251 3 B. gargarizans 22 KY296014 KY295972 This study 7 Korea 36.485968 127.737251 3 B. gargarizans 23 KY296015 KY295970 This study 7 Korea 36.485968 127.737251 3 B. gargarizans 24 KY296017 KY295969 This study 8 Korea 35.181633 126.541167 5 B. gargarizans 25 KY296018 KY295968 This study 8 Korea 35.181633 126.541167 5 B. gargarizans 26 KY296019 KY295967 This study 8 Korea 35.181633 126.541167 5 B. gargarizans 27 KY296020 KY295966 This study 8 Korea 35.181633 126.541167 5 B. gargarizans 28 KY296021 KY295965 This study 8 Korea 35.181633 126.541167 5 B. gargarizans 29 KY296016 KY295964 This study 9 Korea 36.666582 126.642740 5 B. gargarizans 30 KY296022 KY295963 This study 9 Korea 36.666582 126.642740 5 B. gargarizans 31 KY296023 KY295962 This study 9 Korea 36.666582 126.642740 5 B. gargarizans 32 KY296024 KY295961 This study 9 Korea 36.666582 126.642740 5 B. gargarizans 33 KY296025 KY295960 This study 9 Korea 36.666582 126.642740 5 B. gargarizans 34 KY296026 KY295959 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 35 KY296027 KY295958 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 36 KY296028 KY295957 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 37 KY296029 KY295956 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 38 KY296030 KY295955 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 39 KY296031 KY295954 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 40 KY296032 KY295953 This study
CR = 427 bp, ND2 = 795, bp = 1,222,Figs. 3and4) was used to perform statistical coalescent and phylogeographic analyses (see below). Lastly, we built a smaller alignment that only included all the Korean B. gargarizans (n = 47) form Korea and all closely related matches from nearby China (n = 15;Fig. 6;Figs. S1andS2). The length of this alignment was 422 and 795 bp for the CR and ND2 fragments, respectively. The combined data set resulted in 1,217 bp in length.
Sequences were aligned in Seaview v.4.2.11 (Gouy, Guindon & Gascuel, 2010) under ClustalW2 (Larkin et al., 2007) with default settings. Genetic p-distances (pairwise deletion) and standard error (% ± SE) were calculated using Mega 7 (Kumar, Stecher & Tamura, 2016). The most appropriate substitution model for the Bayesian inference (BI) analysis was determined by the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) in PartitionFinder v.2 (Lanfear et al., 2012). MrBayes v.3.2.6 (Ronquist & Huelsenbeck, 2003) was used with default priors and Markov chain settings, and with a random starting tree. Each run consisted of four chains of 20,000,000 generations (small alignment, n = 62,Figs. S1
andS2), 100,000,000 (large alignment, n = 181,Fig. 2) sampled each 2,000 generations
Table 1 (continued ). Site ID on
Fig. 1
Country Latitude (N) Longitude (W) Sample size
Sample ID GenBank Accession Number Origin
(or localities) CR ND2
10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 41 KY296033 KY295952 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 42 KY296034 KY295951 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 43 KY296035 KY295950 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 44 KY296036 KY295949 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 45 KY296037 KY295948 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 46 KY296038 KY295947 This study 10 Korea 36.082754 127.494845 13 B. gargarizans 47 KY296039 KY295946 This study
CIB-XM China Antu 1 CIBX-M014 AY924344 AY936870 Fu et al. (2005)
CIB-XM China Antu 1 CIBX-M076 AY924345 AY936867 Fu et al. (2005)
HB China Hubei Shishou 5 HB21 DQ288717 – Hu et al. (2007)
HB China Hubei Shishou 5 HB41 DQ288717 – Hu et al. (2007)
HB China Hubei Shishou 5 HB51 DQ288717 – Hu et al. (2007)
HB China Hubei Shishou 5 HB61 DQ288717 – Hu et al. (2007)
HB China Hubei Shishou 5 HB71 DQ288717 – Hu et al. (2007)
GS China Gansu Lanzhou 5 GS413 DQ288719 – Hu et al. (2007)
GS China Gansu Lanzhou 5 GS463 DQ288719 – Hu et al. (2007)
GS China Gansu Lanzhou 5 GS473 DQ288719 – Hu et al. (2007)
GS China Gansu Lanzhou 5 GS483 DQ288719 – Hu et al. (2007)
GS China Gansu Lanzhou 5 GS4101 DQ288717 – Hu et al. (2007)
HLJ China Heilongjiang Harbin 3 HLJ11 DQ288717 – Hu et al. (2007)
HLJ China Heilongjiang Harbin 3 HLJ22 DQ288718 – Hu et al. (2007)
HLJ China Heilongjiang Harbin 3 HLJ32 DQ288718 – Hu et al. (2007)
Notes:
The GPS coordinates provided are the centre of gravity calculated from the different sampling sites. All sampling sites within 10 km of each other were considered a single locality. The samples downloaded from GenBank grouped within the Korean clade are listed in the table.
Figure 2 Best Maximum Likelihood tree (n = 181) recovered from the RAxML analyses and BI for the ND2 and CR fragments, displaying the genetic structure of Bufo gargarizans from the Korean Peninsula and mainland Chinese localities. Posterior probabilities > 0.95 from the Bayesian Inference are indicated on nodes asin black (BI) in red (ML). Green clade; Western China, red clade; Korea (+ 5 Chinese haplotypes),
(small alignment) and 10,000 (large alignment), respectively. For the BI analyses, a plateau was reached after few generations with 25% of the trees resulting from the analyses discarded as burn in. Phylogenetic relationships among haplotypes for each locus were estimated using a maximum likelihood (ML) approach, as implemented in the software RAxML v7.0.4 (Silvestro & Michalak, 2012;Stamatakis, 2014), using the default settings. Node support was inferred by the bipartition method in RAxML with 10 random addition replicates. All analyses were performed through the CIPRES platform (Miller, Pfeiffer & Schwartz, 2010). Candidate outgroup species for the trees were B. japonicus, Bufo stejnegeri and Bufo tibetanus. However, divergence of B. japonicus and B. tibetanus were low and closely grouped within the B. gargarizans clades. Thus, we employed B. stejnegeri as the most suitable outgroup for the RaxML and MrBayes analyses of the larger data set (n = 181) and used B. tibetanus in the smaller data set (n = 63). Networks were built on Haploviewer (Salzburger, Ewing & Von Haeseler, 2011) under the best tree topology as inferred in RAxML for sequenced Korean individuals (Fig. 5). The molecular clock test was done in MEGA 7 (Kumar, Stecher & Tamura, 2016), using the entire small dataset
Location (Node color) Central China Korea North East China South East China West China
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Myr
Figure 3 MCC discrete coalescent tree (n = 148) of Bufo gargarizans. Node circle are colour coded by localities and sizes correspond to prob-ability of the locality origin. Green clade; Western China, red clade; Korea (+ 5 Chinese haplotypes), blue clade; all Chinese localities.
(CR+ND2 concatenated 63 samples) and applying the GTR+G model (the same used in RAxML analyses). The Partition Homogeneity Test was performed in PAUP 4 (Swofford 2003;Tamura et al., 2013), applying the partition of each gene, CR+ND2.
In order to time-calibrate the population tree, we fixed the mutation rate in the CR to 7.3 10-9substitutions/site/year following (Sto¨ck et al., 2006) and the ND2 rate estimated from the prior. This CR rate lies as a mean from previous estimates from European Bufo genus species and B. gargarizans, between 0.067 and 0.087 per lineage per million years (Sto¨ck et al., 2006) and are established based on the last connection between North Africa and Sicily about 5.3 million years ago (M. y. a.). For population size, we used a prior normal distribution with mean = 7.3 10-9and standard deviation = 0.5. In addition to the population tree, we co-estimated the dispersal history using a discrete phylogeographic (ancestral state reconstruction) model (Lemey et al., 2009) implemented in BEAST v1.8.2 (Drummond et al. 2012;http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk). Given that our geographic sampling of populations is uneven and our state-space is low, we chose a symmetric continuous-time rate matrix. As priors for the rates, we selected the
approximate reference (CTMC) prior (Ferreira & Suchard, 2008). The discrete BI analyses (alignment n = 62) was run for 10 million generations and sampling every 1,000 generations. In addition, the statistical dispersal-vicariance analysis (S-DIVA) was run using RASP v3.0 (Yu et al., 2015), allowing all possible area overlaps and keeping a
posterior 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Myr
CIB-ZYC782 J45 G29 H24 CIB-XM036 C10 J37 CIB-XM035 CIB-XM281 CIB-JF036 CIB-JF082 HN1 CIB-XM907 CIB-ZYC064 FJAH2 C8 CIB-XM014 CIB-XM283 CIB-JF382 F21 CIB-XM923 SD2 B3 CIB-LC002 CIB-ZYC012 CIB-XM1004 JSAH1 CIB-XM128 CIB-JF653 CIB-ZYC579 I34 D13 CIB-ZYC015 CIB-W01412 CIB-LC001 HLJHBGS1 CIB-ZYC063 CIB-JF654 CIB-ZYC704 FJ11 LN6 CIB-ZYC061 GZLN1 HLJHBGS CIB-XM611 FJAH1 HLJ3 C9 GS34 AH26 I33 J38 CIB-JF083 H27 CIB-XM089 C12 CIB-JF033 YNAH YNAH1 HN4 HLJHBGS2 JS7 I32 CIB-JF232 CIB-JF081 E16 HB1 CIB-LC094 CIB-XM612 F20 B6 CIB-JF252 B7 J46 GSHB1 FJAH J44 KIZ97F001 H28 CIB-XM433 F18 F17 A2 GZLN JS11 I30 CIB-W01411 CIB-JF231 CIB-JF643 E15 KIZ97006 J43 SC2 J35 F19 CIB-JF035 CIB-XM922 UG-37763 SD1 B5 GS45 CIB-JF119 G22 J41 CIB-XM076 CIB-XM086 CIB-XM087 CIB-JF034 SD3 G23 YN3 KIZ-97005 JSAH UG-37431 J47 LN1 CIB-LC095 B4 I31 J40 CIB-ZYC013 E14 JX5 HN8 GSHB CIB-XM088 CIB-ZYC907 J39 CIB-ZYC014 CIB-XM099 CIB-ZYC668 GS41 H25 CIB-XM558 UG-37762 CIB-ZYC062 A1 J36 J42 CIB-XM432 CIB-JF098 JS10 CIB-ZYC906 CIB-XM557 C11 JX1 H26 CIB-ZYC580Figure 4 MCC continuous coalescent tree (n = 148) of Bufo gargarizans. High posterior probability nodes are represented in red circles. Green clade; Western China, red clade; Korea (+ 5 Chinese haplotypes), blue clade; all Chinese localities.
maximum of three areas per reconstructed node. Results were saved in text and PNG format and then edited by plotting the maximum-clade-credibility (MCC; see below) tree in R using APE (Paradis, Claude & Strimmer, 2004;Fig. 6).
Secondly, we estimated the diffusion of the B. gargarizans CR and ND2 sequence data through time using the continuous Bayesian phylogeographic approach (Lemey et al., 2010). This approach estimates population range changes through time and ancestral population locations or origins. We used the Gamma RRW model (alignment n = 62) and Cauchy RRW model (alignment n = 148) with all individuals assigned to GPS coordinates. A random ‘jitter’ was added to each GPS coordinate with a window size of 0.5. We applied a fixed clock rate to the CR partition (see above) and estimated from the prior for the ND2. We used marginal likelihood estimations (MLE) and Bayes factors (BF) to select for the continuous trait model. MLE were calculated through path sampling (PS) and stepping stone (SS) analyses in BEAST (Baele et al., 2012). We tested for Brownian, Gauchy, Gamma and Lognormal RRW models under the strict and relaxed lognormal models running 300 million generations, with sampling every 30,000 generations. The larger data set (n = 148) revealed chain convergence problems (e.g. Gamma RRW) with MLE analyses and therefore models were tested only on the strict clock. The posterior distributions of parameter estimates were visually inspected in Tracer v1.6 (Rambaut & Drummond, 2007). For all the models tested, MLE analyses were run for 50 path steps and 100,000 generations with each step. The BF were calculated as two times
Figure 5 RAxML networks based on ND2 (A), CR (B) and combined datasets (C). Networks were built on Haploviewer under the best tree topology as inferred in RAxML. Numbers 1–10 relate to the coding of populations fromTable 1andFig. 1. Full-size DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4044/fig-5
the difference in MLE between different models, and the significance was determined if the BF value was >10 (Kass & Raftery, 1995). Spatial continuous space MCC trees (n = 62 and n = 148) were computed in SPREAD (Bielejec et al., 2011) and viewed in Google Earth (http://earth.google.com;Figs. 7and8).
Thirdly, we inferred changes in effective population size of the Korean individuals through time using a Bayesian skyline plot (BSP) model (Drummond et al., 2005) with strict clock for the CR data and same prior and a Lognormal relaxed clock for the ND2 fragment (Fig. 9). For both analyses, we ran two independent MCMC chains, each with 20 million states and sampling every 2,000 generations.
Figure 6 Statistical dispersal-vicariance analysis (S-DIVA) tree for all Korean and closely related Chinese B. gargarizans. Chinese localities refer to those inFig. 7;Fig. S1.
Independent runs were evaluated for convergence and mixing by observing and comparing traces of each statistic and parameter in Tracer v1.6 (http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/ tracer). We considered effective sampling size (ESS) values >200 to be good indicators of parameter mixing. The first 10 states of the discrete, BSP and continuous Bayesian phylogenies were discarded as burnin. Samples were merged using LogCombiner v1.8.2. The resulting trees were summarised using TreeAnnotator v1.8.2, where a MCC tree with mean values was generated under heights = ca (Heled & Bouckaert, 2013). In the case of BSP, log and tree files were uploaded into Tracer, in which the plot was generated. In addition, to examine whether the species showed any sign of historical population expansion, we estimated Tajima’s D (Tajima, 1989), Fu’s Fs (Fu, 1997) and a mismatch distribution analysis (Rogers & Harpending, 1992). Negative values of Tajima’s D can be interpreted as evidence of population expansions (Fu, 1997), and negative values of Fs indicate an excess of recent mutations and reject population stasis. In addition, we performed a Ramos-Onsins and Rozas (R2) analyses (Ramos-Onsins & Rozas, 2000). Diagrams of frequencies of pairwise genetic differences were drawn using DnaSP v.5.0 (Rozas et al., 2003). A thousand bootstrap replicates were used to generate an expected distribution using a model of sudden demographic expansion (Excoffier, Laval & Schneider, 2005). This mismatch distribution is usually multimodal in samples drawn from populations at demographic equilibrium, but is usually unimodal in populations following recent population demographic and range expansion (Slatkin & Hudson, 1991;
Rogers & Harpending, 1992;Ray, Currat & Excoffier, 2003). Based on the lack of population differentiation between Korean (n = 47) and Chinese (n = 15) sequences were all considered as one population for demographic population analyses.
Figure 7 MCC Bayesian phylogeographic projections for Bufo gargarizans at different times scales. (A, B) Mainland expansions 200 K. y. a. and present, (C–E) Korean Peninsula expansions 300 K, 150 K. y. a., and present. The MCC gene tree is represented with black lines. Old diffusions shown in orange and more recent ones are shown in light green. Map data©2015 Google.
RESULTS
Preliminary phylogenetic data on all B. gargarizans from GenBank revealed intricate phylogenetic relationships mostly through paraphyly within the species complex. Bufo tibetanus, B. bankorensis, B. japonicus, B. stejnegeri, B. andrewski were closely associated to the Korean specimens generated from this study and to other Asian B. lineages gargarizans. Although out of the scope of this work, it is evident that this group is in need of taxonomical assessment. All trees recovered the Korean B. gargarizans as monophyletic with five Chinese haplotypes (n = 15) nested with in the Korean
B. gargarizans clade (Figs. 2–4,6;Figs. S1–S3) and were therefore included for the final phylogenetic analyses. GenBank BLAST searches of CR and ND2 sequences matched the same haplotype between Korean populations and three Chinese populations (Table 1). The ND2 and CR data set recovered 11 and 15 haplotypes, respectively. The molecular clock test (p = 0.999) confirmed that the null hypothesis could not be rejected. The Partition Homogeneity Tests (p = 0.90) indicated no significant heterogeneity between partitions and therefore analyses were performed with the concatenated alignment.
Uncorrected p-distances of haplotypes within the two major clades recovered by the phylogenetic analyses (Fig. 6;Figs. S1–S3) were low, CR (Korea + China clade;
0.51 ± 0.05%, Korean clade; 0.96 ± 0.07%), ND1 (Korea + China clade; 0.1 ± 0.02%, Korean clade; 0.33 ± 0.02%) and were not much different to the divergence between clades based on the ND2 fragment (ND1; 0.39 ± 0.01%) but lower than based on the CR clade divergence (CR; 1.7 ± 0.05%). The uncorrected p-distances between the Chinese and Korean individuals were low and again highlight the lack of genetic isolation between localities.
The unimodal mismatch distribution (Fig. S4) of the Korean and Chinese
B. gargarizans suggests a population expansion (Fig. 9). Although the CR data set did not show statistical significance for demographic expansion, the overall negative Fu’s F and Tajima D for both markers (ND2, Fu’s F =-4.67, p = 0.006, Tajima’s D = -0.55 NS; CR, Fu’s F =-1.823, p = 0.062, Tajima’s D = -0.093 NS) suggest an excess of low frequency alleles and therefore the possibility of demographic expansion cannot be rejected based on these results. Despite this, the Ramos-Onsins and Rozas for each marker were not significant (CR; p = 0.111, ND2; p = 0.087). The BSP shows a population
Figure 8 MCC Bayesian phylogeographic projections for Bufo gargarizans at different times scales for the complete data set of 148 individuals. (A) China mainland expansions 2 M. y. a, (B): China– Korea expansions 2 M. y. a.–800 K. y. a., (C) present expansions. The MCC gene tree is represented with black lines and old diffusions braches are shown in red. The orange arrows depict the three MCC branches of Korean to China expansions. Map data©2015 Google.
expansion within the last 300 K. y. a. This data is in accordance with the mismatch distribution analyses and the lack of population structure as seen from the phylogenetic and network analyses.
The best-fitting models for the CR and ND2 alignments were the following; n = 62; HKY+G and HKY+I, n = 181; HKY+I+G, ND2 by codon partition, TrN+I, K80+I, HKY and n = 148; HKY+I+G and TrN+I. All analyses recovered a well-resolved monophyletic clade composed by Korean+Chinese individuals. The larger data sets (n = 181, n = 148) recovered three clades. The RAxML, BI and continuous Bayesian analyses recovered the Korean clade sister to the clade composed by individuals from all Chinese localities (Central, North East, South East, West China), and a more ancestral Chinese Western clade. However, the Bayesian discrete tree recovered the Korean clade as sister clade to the Western China clade, but this relationship was weakly supported. The rooted ML and BI tree for the smaller alignment (n = 62 + outgroup) recovered the same tree topology with two sister clades, one composed by only Korean taxa and the other by Korean and 15 Chinese individuals from four localities. The discrete MCC tree (Fig. S1) and S-DIVA analyses (Fig. 6) indicate a Korean ancestral origin of the Chinese haplotypes and therefore point to a recent expansion from the Korean Peninsula towards mainland China.
The ML networks revealed a clear lack of structure within the Korean metapopulation with most populations recovering different haplotypes with no geographical structure (Fig. 5). For the continuous analyses the Strict Gamma RRW was selected over all other tested models for the Korean and closely related Chinese individuals (reduced alignment) and the Strict Cauchy RRW for the larger alignment with all Chinese localities (n = 148) (Table S1). In congruence to the rooted phylogenies, the population-based discrete and continuous phylogeographic analyses recovered two clades, the Chinese-Korean and Korean. The trees showed high posterior probability support for the Chinese+Korean but poor support for the Korean clade, which recovered two strong supported clades with
Figure 9 Bayesian skyline plot (BSP) for the ND2 and CR sequence data for Korean Bufo gargarizans.
no apparent geographical structure. Individuals from the same localities were grouped within the different clades, potentially showing admixture of the metapopulation. The continuous MCC tree revealed a time split between these clades dating to circa 700 K. y. a. However, the limited number of samples from the mainland and the few markers available (mostly CR), resulted in modest node support, and thus, caution is needed in the interpretation of the dispersal events from the Korean Peninsula towards the mainland. With these analyses we aim to elucidate evidence on the dispersal path (Korea to China or China to Korea) or the bi-directionality of such. The projection of the MCC tree (Fig. 4) in the geographical map (Fig. 8) shows an original expansion of the Western Chinese population with an early radiation towards the Korean Peninsula at approximately 2 M. y. a. From 2 M. y. a. to about 800 K. y. a. there is an overall population expansion in Western, Central and South East China. The current population spread throughout all the Chinese localities and point to a continuous and progressive expansion of the populations. The projection of the MCC tree (Fig. S2) in the geographical map of the Korean B. gargarizans and closely matched Chinese individuals (Fig. 7) shows a Korean expansion circa 300 K. y. a., with a subsequent Northern expansion lineage towards South Eastern China progressing further north to North Eastern China (north of Northern Korea). The Gamma RRW model suggests this population colonised North Western China, not being a direct colonisation from the Korean Peninsula population, however this colonisation route was not recovered in the Cauchy RRW models of either the small or large continuous analyses, suggesting a direct colonisation from Korea. The South West China population was likely colonised through land bridge formations over the Yellow Sea from Central Western Korea circa 300 K. y. a. The MCC tree supports the BSP analyses in the timing of the Korean Peninsula major population expansions, dating to the around the last 200 and 150 K. y. a. (Fig. 7).
Discussion
Although numerous amphibian species see their range restricted to the Korean Peninsula, our results emphasise a broad distribution of B. gargarizans, supported by the presence of common haplotypes in Korea as well as North East Asia. The Korean Peninsula served as a refugium for several species during either glacial or inter-glacial periods for
anurans (Zhang et al., 2008;Yoshikawa et al., 2008), as well as for other more efficient dispersers (Hosoda et al., 2000;Kim et al., 2013;Koh et al., 2014). Our findings suggest colonisation of the Korean Peninsula by individuals originating from the Chinese mainland between 2 and 0.8 M. y. a. followed by weak isolation or repeated gene exchange, as seen through the monophyly of a Korean clade within the widespread B. gargarizans species complex. This was followed by dispersal events originating from the Korean Peninsula, northwards over land and westwards over land bridges during sea level falls.
The population expansion seen on the Chinese mainland, and on then Korean Peninsula, for the last 2 m.y. started during the paeloperiod when the drainage basins of the Han, Amur, Liao and Yellow Rivers were joined into a single unit, flowing into the ocean south of the current Yellow Sea (Ryu et al., 2008). At the period in the early Quaternary, the totality of the Chinese Mainland, Taiwanese and Japanese Islands and the
Korean Peninsula were connected by the continental shelf for the last time (seeFig. 1,He et al., 2015). This increased landscape connectivity (Xie, Jian & Zhao, 1995;Diekmann et al., 2008) enabled toads to breed, disperse, and colonise new areas unhindered. Besides, this period matches with the establishment and reinforcement of the monsoon weather (Wang & LinHo, 2002;Lee, Jhun & Park, 2005;He et al., 2015), which also contributed to an increase of habitat suitability for amphibians, and the proliferation of populations.
During the next glacial maximum of the next 2 m.y. the Korean Peninsula may have not been isolated during glacial maxima, but during inter-glacials, as a complementary hypothesis to the four options raised byKim et al. (2013), and explaining the unexpected ‘expansion period (0.02 ± 0.02 [m.y.a]) corresponding to the LGM’ (Kim et al., 2013). The glacial maxima resulted in a larger continuous refugium connecting the Korean Peninsula and the Chinese mainland south of the ice line (Zhan & Fu, 2011;Yan et al., 2013), due to the absence of ice in the Korean Peninsula during the LGM (Kong, 2000;
Walker et al., 2009;Yi & Kim, 2010), and the drop in sea levels, accumulated in glaciers, during glacial maxima. This will have allowed for the continuous gene exchange, and the later population expansions, followed by the northward dispersion events. The potential increased connectivity between Chinese mainland and Korean Peninsula during this period are the Mindel-Riss inter-glacial (MIS 11; in Europe:Kukla, 2005; in Russia:
Galuskin et al., 2009), the Riss glacial period (MIS 6; Kazantseva glaciation,Vasil’ev, 2001;
Mu¨ller, Pross & Bibus, 2003) and the glaciation period called the Wurm Glaciation in Europe (=MIS 2–4;Ehlers & Gibbard, 2008; Zyryanka in Asia:Astakhov, 1998).
The recovery of two distinct clades within the peninsula reflects likely episodes of dispersal events to/from the Korean Peninsula. The median time since the most recent common ancestor (TMRC) between the two clades generally matches with the interglacial period before the Gunz Glaciation (=Marine isotope stage (MIS) 16; Schweitzer, 2004), circa 700 K. y. a., when the Korean and the mainland became isolated due to sea level resurgence. Topographical and environmental heterogeneity is more often than not a predictor to patterns of increased genetic variability sustained by different levels of allopatric diversification. Within Korea, the lack of North–South genetic structure may have been foreseen due to the continuity of low plains facilitating dispersion of anurans, as visible through the current range of Dryophytes suweonensis (Borze´e, Yu & Jang, 2016;
Borze´e et al., 2017) and P. chosenicus. In contrast, several studies have shown the role of East-West topographical barriers in the Korean Peninsula, contributing to allopatric speciation in amphibians, such as for Hynobius spp. (Baek et al., 2011;Min et al., 2016) and D. japonicus (Dufresnes et al., 2016). However, despite the presence of landscape barriers throughout the sampled area, such as the Baekdu Mountain Range and the sea channel between the mainland and Gangwha Island, genetic exchange was not
constrained, as shown by the presence of common haplotypes on both sides of these candidate geographical barriers. This pattern was unexpected due to the topographical relief of Baekdu Mountain Range above the occurrence threshold of B. gargarizans. We interpret this apparent lack of genetic structure as a result of efficient dispersal capabilities in B. gargarizans, as seen in most toads (Vences et al., 2003), or dispersion over emerged lands during glacial maxima.
Bufo gargarizans in Chinese localities (HLJ, HB and GS inTable 1) recovered common haplotypes for the CR in Korean individuals, implying recent dispersal and gene flow between localities. The clustering of South Korean and Chinese haplotypes in a single clade subsequently to the last major interglacial period is historically coherent due to the regular fluctuations of the Yellow Sea level following minor ice ages (Jingtai & Pinxian, 1980;Oba et al., 1991;Liu et al., 2009). The Korean Peninsula was last connected to the Chinese mainland over the Yellow Sea during the late Pleistocene (Millien-Parra & Jaeger, 1999), and species were able to take advantage of land bridges to disperse until the end of the LGM, circa 15 K. y. a. (Chung, 2007;Lomolino et al., 2010). However, we need to address that while the presence of a Korean and a Korean + mainland clade may suggest possible expansions from different areas of potentially ancestral allopatric populations that reconnected in the Peninsula, this pattern can also be caused by incomplete lineage sorting, where some individuals still retain ancestral haplotypes (i.e. partial divergence with no secondary contact). Although the idea of two disjoint populations coming into secondary contact in the peninsula sounds appealing, our data does not lend to test hypotheses of admixture, thus testing apart secondary contact from lineage sorting would be difficult (Qu et al., 2012).
The case of Gangwa Island is peculiar as the two sampled individuals were breeding males, identifiable through the unmistakable forearm muscular development, but about a third smaller than average male size, 2.83 cm (± 0.12 cm), versus 8.08 cm (± 0.67 cm) in average for males B. gargarizans (Cheong, Sung & Park, 2008). This size variation may be explained by the island effect, where isolated individuals drift in average size, while being genetically closely related, i.e. same haplotype, to individuals on the mainland. This is, for instance, the case of D. japonicus between Jeju Island and the Korean Mainland (Jang et al., 2011). Further sampling in this and other satellite islands is likely to elucidate further information on the processes of dwarfism in the area.
The topographical effects caused by sea level changes throughout the ice ages in Asia and Europe are contrasting. In Europe, ice shelves lead to the southwards displacement of species resulting in isolation through allopatric speciation on southern peninsulas (i.e. Iberian, Italian, Greek, Balkans;Hewitt, 2000). In contrast, sea level recession in North East Asia at glacial maxima resulted in the drainage of the Yellow Sea (Jingtai & Pinxian, 1980;Haq, Hardenbol & Vail, 1987;Fairbanks, 1989;Park, Khim & Zhao, 1994;Kim & Kennett, 1998;Ijiri et al., 2005;Liu et al., 2009) and the near closing of the Tsushima Straight (Oba et al., 1991;Millien-Parra & Jaeger, 1999;He et al., 2015). Land bridge formations between the mainland, the Korean Peninsula (Haq, Hardenbol & Vail, 1987;
Millien-Parra & Jaeger, 1999;Chung, 2007;Lomolino et al., 2010) and the then continuous formation of the Japanese Islands effectively allowed genetic admixture between
populations as seen in this study, and blurring of species boundaries through introgressive extinction.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DECLARATIONS
Funding
This work was financially supported by research grants from the Rural Development Administration (PJ012285) and the National Research Foundation of Korea
(2017R1A2B2003579) to Yikweon Jang and by the Korean National Institute of Ecology International collaborative research grant for Michael Joseph Jowers. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Grant Disclosures
The following grant information was disclosed by the authors: Rural Development Administration: PJ012285.
National Research Foundation of Korea: 2017R1A2B2003579. International Research grant, Korean National Institute of Ecology.
Competing Interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Author Contributions
Amae¨l Borze´e contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Joana L. Santos analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Santiago Sa´nchez-RamI´rez analyzed the data, reviewed drafts of the paper. Yoonhyuk Bae contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.
Kyongman Heo contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. Yikweon Jang contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.
Michael Joseph Jowers conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Animal Ethics
The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e. approving body and any reference numbers):
The Ministry of Environment (permit numbers: Yesan-2016-10; Boeun-01; Gangwha-2016-01; Jeonju-Gangwha-2016-01; Hampyeong-2016-37; Daegu-Gangwha-2016-01; Geumsan-2016-02; Nonsan-2016-01; Changwon-2016-02) approved this study.
DNA Deposition
The following information was supplied regarding the deposition of DNA sequences: GenBank sequences can be found inTable 1.
Data Availability
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Supplemental Information
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